Canadians are spending $300 million for a federal election on May 2 that might again change nothing.

With the governing Conservatives firming up their numbers in public opinion polls, the only question might be whether they will finally be able to form a majority government to forestall another election for four or five years.

This is the fourth election in seven years as minority Conservative governments keep getting voted out of office by the other parties.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's platform of restraint and lower taxes to eliminate the federal deficit appears to be working as a Nanos Research poll after the televised leadership debates firmed his Conservatives at 38.7 percent.